John Dingell: “Did you have any personal communications with President Obama, with the Vice President, or campaign donors or others who…”

It is a very happy system. It works well. And it has had no controversy that I can recall except one instance.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is a public-friendly institution.

The Dingell-Johnson Act implemented a new 10 percent excise tax on fishing rods, reels, related components and fishing tackle.

The goal Congress set then was unparalleled in all of history. Our country resolved to put an end to the decades--indeed, centuries--of neglect that had resulted in the extinction of the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet, and the…